The Maine Department of Health and Human Services “will take prompt action” to comply with a law requiring that it restore its staff of public health nurses, according to a lawyer defending the department against a lawsuit for its failure to implement the 2017 law. Read More
C21 Investments said it terminated the deal with businessman Kevin Dean because of a law modifying rules for recreational marijuana in Maine. Read More
“There’s funding there to hire nurses,” said one nurse who's part of the lawsuit. “I don’t understand why the department isn’t hiring highly qualified nurses to work.” Read More
While the two major party candidates spent heavily on television ads to win their respective primary races, two unenrolled challengers have focused their efforts online. Read More
“How are we doing a good job for these kids, that we’ve removed them from their parents, they’re traumatized, they’re scared, and then we plop them in a hotel? How is that best for them?” Read More
Chipping away at the stigma that blocks too many people addicted to drugs and their loved ones from seeking recovery options emerged as the priority Wednesday in a gathering that included three candidates for governor. Read More
Maine regulators have required the state's largest private electricity seller, Electricity Maine, to tell them why it should be allowed to keep selling in Maine after a rash of complaints about deceptive sales practices. Read More
The Bangor Daily News hosted the One Life Project: Public Priorities event to get a sense of the most urgent and well-supported initiatives for tackling opioid addiction, involve the public in discussion about a key issue in advance of November’s election, and provide a chance for the gubernatorial candidates to listen to what matters to Maine people. Read More
That group includes Arctaris Capital, a Boston-based firm that said the designation would be essential to a plan to buy and reopen Saddleback Mountain in Rangeley. Read More
“All of this duplication of effort, all this extra work is only further overloading DHHS, making it that much more likely that the workers are going to miss a case of a child in danger,” said Richard Wexler of the National Coalition for Child Protection Reform. Read More
The public is encouraged to attend the One Life Project: Public Priorities event, where attendees will work together to select what both the Bangor region and Maine as a whole should do next to address the opioid epidemic. July 18 at 5:30 p.m. at the Bangor Arts Exchange. Read More
The Maine Department of Health and Human Services has decided to delay changes for six months that addiction treatment agencies had said would threaten their operations in the middle of an opioid crisis. Read More
It's still unclear how many facilities there would be, how many children they would house, how long residents would remain there, and who would run them. Read More
